New Flickr set, from the Fieldwork of Helmut Buechner

The Field Book Project is excited to announce its latest Flickr set, images from the work of Helmut Buechner. Buechner came to the Smithsonian in 1969 as the first Director of the Office of Ecology. He later served as Senior Ecologist for the Office of Environmental Sciences at the National Zoological Park.

Over the course of his career, he worked and traveled in western United States and Africa. The images selected document his field work from in the Pacific Northwest and Wyoming from 1949 to 1954, while he was an professor at Washington State College (now University), and demonstrate some of the types of observations he used in his work.

The Field Book Project is an initiative to increase accessibility to field book content that documents natural history. Through ongoing partnerships within and beyond the Smithsonian Institution, the Project is making field books easier to find and available in a digital format for current research, as well as inspiring new ways of utilizing these rich information resources.